As you do, flipping through the paper, avoiding the sleaze and trying to update on the swine-flu stuff and the guy who took two weeks to finish the London marathon (one's on the front page, one's lost in the middle). Stephen Armstrong has touched on what I find really interesting, what will happen now that terrestrial television is disappearing, and being replaced by ???? So far we have 'digital', but where next ? And, could we become like Americans, where local and regional newspapers have gone bankrupt due to no-one reading them (free news-feeds from the 'Net) . . .
Armstrong's seductively well-written (short, quite short !) essay takes us through what they're doing stateside with Kindle and what we might be doing here with Canvas (next generation of BBC i-Player), but the BIG change is that what we've been watching for free might start to cost. And the feed might disappear from those hard-to-reach continents like India and Africa. Read this and splutter into your cornflakes.
According to Armstrong, it is, in fact the brave new face of communication. If you're under thirty, you already text and Twitter in real-time whilst everyone's watching the same programme on the box.
It MIGHT be the most interesting thing you read all week . . . if you're under thirty you likely already know all about it. . . The reference is
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6256359.ece
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